Eddie Hearn

Last year, before AJ boxed Jake Paul,

We were in these conversations and we were going to fight in March and then fight Fury in August.

Obviously, AJ boxed Jake Paul and then a few weeks later had that car crash.

He was really badly injured.

You know, his two best friends died in the crash and it was like the world come crashing down.

Everything was just cancelled.

It was like, we're not going to talk about boxing.

Just let him grieve, let him recover.

And then when the time comes...

we'll pick these back up.

And that was about a month ago, really.

And the conversation started again.

You know, we were going to have a warm-up fight then.

So now, especially with everything that's happened, like, we're still going to do that.

And I know people say, just do it now.

It's like, guys, like, give him a chance, you know.

So we'll do that against Pranger, who's, you know, we should deal with him.

He's 20.

The only thing, he's 21 wins, 20 knockouts, which is like a few people have gone, couldn't you have found someone who don't punch quite as hard?

It's like, we've got to be beating guys like that.